On history's trail speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 / Light Townsend Cummins.
| Author/creator | Cummins, Light Townsend |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2014. |
| Description | xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections |
| Contents | Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy -- Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans -- Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls -- Audie Murphy's hometown -- Is Bigfoot a Texan? -- Herring Coe in bronze and stone -- Jesus wears cowboy boots -- Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas -- My place is at a table -- The voice in the Big Bend -- Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde -- Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio -- Background to the empresario era in Texas -- Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation -- Celebrating San Jacinto -- The first law school in Texas, 1855 -- The Red River War in historical perspective -- The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor -- Sculpting Texas history in bronze -- Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form -- Remembering Hugh F. Rankin -- The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana -- Talks on Texas politics and public service -- Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service -- Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect -- Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe -- The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history -- Historical interpretation and Texas history. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014030645 |
| ISBN | 9781625110237 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |